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EDITORIAL. PAGE THE ! JO ME PAPER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN FOR an ojm Hubserlptlon Prtc [>ubll8he«l Ev By THH At, L'O Kant Alai i lain matter wt poi I lellveM l>y oarr Puynb r, 10 cent* i woe In Advenco. <*:. oo Bryan’s Narrow "Little Navy” Policy the Cause of His Visit w to California. The selection of Mr, Bryan to visit California and persuade the citizens there to abandon the exercise of their sovereign rights and to bow timorously and obsequiously before the threats of Japan is peculiarly appropriate. The reason that Californians are .asked to give up their rights in order to pacify Japan, and to sacrifice their interests and the in terests of the country at large in order to please the Japanese, is because we have no sufficient navy, and the main reason that we have no sufficient navy is because Mr. Bryan has exerted his in fluence among his unthinking followers in the Democratic House f to prevent the country from having a sufficient navy, This visit to California, therefore, will give Mr. Bryan an op portunity to demonstrate to the country the advantages of his I peace-at-any price policy. It will give him a conspicuous ohanoe to establish his superiority in wisdom and patriotism to George/ Washington, who said: To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual methods/* of .preserving peace. Mr. Bryan is noted for his eloquence, if for nothing else, and it j will take considerable eloquence to prove that war is cheaper than a reasonable naval insurance ugainBt war, and to convince the citi-,' sens of California that Abraham Lincoln was wrong when he said: One half day ’s cost of this war would pay for all the slaves in Delaware at $400 a head." It will take quite a flow of oratory to oonvinoe the citizens of the country generally that the proper American policy is to save a few dollars in the building of ships and sacrifice our independ-, ence, our self-respect and our actual interests os a nation. It is fortunate that Charles Goatesworth Pinckney, statesman and partiot, is no longer alive to learn from the Democrats of to day how poorly he represented the American spirit when he replied to the demands of Napoleon’s Minister that the motto of America* was "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." To-day. at least among the Democrats of America, there are no millions for defense, but there is a pitiful disposition to pay tribute in consideration and concession to any demands that an in Solent foreign nation may urge. In Ambassador Pinckney's time the United States had about one-third the territory that it now possesses and about one-twen tieth of the population. It was smaller in men, but larger in manhood. It was smaller in size, but larger in independence and honor. It was lesser in wealth, but greater in courage. For Ambassador Pinckney was not speaking for a nation of a hundred millions to a nation of less than half that number. He was speaking for a scant five million of plain American citizens, and asserting his independence and theirs in the face of the great est military nation of that time, and of the greatest military leader of the world. But courage and determination more than made up for lack of numbers and lack of wealth, and Talleyrand accepted Pinckney’s defiance and abandoned France’s insulting demands. Even in our day courage and conscience count for more than size. Little Montenegro is one of the smallest nations in the world. Yet all the powers of Europe, with their fleets concentrated at its shore, could not make it abandon what it believed to be right. King Nicholas, of Montenegro, in spite of the threats of the powers, prosecuted the siege of Scutari until he took the city. And withal little Montenegro is so small upon the map and the rest oi Europe is so large. In view, then, of our own American ex perience and from our observation of the achievements of other na tions reliant upon right, it would seem that the size of a country is not so important as the size of the men it has at its head. "TEACH US TO PRAY tt By LILIAN LAUFERTY, T Tf*in We 'll 10 ’Tit* dark o'er all tlie v And over land and ae n thi darkness liopek oral. the »tra\ *« In o fi* 'Vi r d\\elt long \ a •til* eyes a.nd wou is vain for hop For this cannot i ; • r Which comes hat an the cry of hear We jtiv hour trembling mortal gone a«tra> If it be not tc>o late to find Thy way. O God! tenth u* to pray. Teach us to pray. For everywhere is gloom, And sudden terror seizes on our hearts A hitter knowledge comes to us to-day: We are world-weary sinners far astray. O God! teach us to pray. Teach us to pray. We would but speak with Thee. Our hearts are full of what but Thou < And we are tired children far astraj We seek the light' of Thine Eter Hear God, teach us to pray. "T st under® W; Teach us to pray Vet this Itself is prayer I-Yum h« arts* of troubled pllgH Grant u* hu; strength t.o g«* a’ We are Thy little ehlfdreu \\h J,..: . re we sleep,* a e pay! earning p< Tn\ Wa\ By GARRETT P. SERVISS. I N mtlquity it was said that there were seven wonders the world, lieu wed by the great Pyramids of Egypt. In the Middle \ges the lis! of world's wunder* was changed throughout, and then it Plaited with the Goliseum of Runic. To-day, if we should revise the list once mure, there fan la* ih> doubt as to what would stand at the head -it would be the Pan ama Canal. Iti order to be accepted as a “wonder,” any work of man must make a particular kind of appeal to the imagination. That it ex cites admiration is not enough: it must also awaken the feeling that in creating it man has taken a step forward, beyond the line of his previous achievements. What Nature Has Done. Regarded in this way, the Pan ama Canal is without a rival, as the intense inter* st shown by the entire world in its approaching . ompletLon pr«>\ * s. For the first lime ill his history man ha* 1 directly joined two oceans, the greatest on the globe r the tir.-i m. ivy cut two continents asunder. T >..• . ,io 1 in- . • ■ • i. A GEO LOGICAL AGENT. peal to the imagination 'all his former works sink into relative insignificance. If some new Herodotus were to go wandering through our modern world in search of mar vels lie would, on arriving at Panama, find no words strong enough to express his amazement, lie would exclaim that the Amer icans had defied the gods by changing their arrangement of the lace of the earth! In order to understand w hat the Panama Canal means as an ex ample of human interference w ith geography, we must look at what nature had done on the same spot. For this purpose take a map show ing the Central Amer ican and West Indian region, w up indications of the depth of water on both ’ike Mr bird's-ey canal ac Thus ; some lo though land pro A m erica: islands and G ra a raised chart, exhibiting a the line of the sihmus. !>« ri\» od. irn lev Pe gltlar. in nnocted t jo ining many the mainland south. - T ( oat. ill broad, cks of both bean Sea now roll? its waters. Afterward there was a sinking, separating the islands from the continental shore, and leaving only the narrow isthmus to con nect North and South America. Two Oceans United by Man. For ages this condition has per sisted. and it is doubtful if the two .continents have ever been completely cut apart, at least since the cretaceous age. More likely the rocky spine of the isth mus has always connected them, w hatever other changes may have occurred. If this be so. it is evident that, in making the Panama Canal, we have interfered with an original arrangement of Nature. We have taken two oceans w hich she had separated and united them by a waterway That waterway, to be sure, is a mere thread, and we have had to elevate much of it abovu s- y level twhivli ;iu vomd not have done), but it serves our purpose, and does it without upsetting any of .Nature's broader designs. If the whole isthmus w« r. swept away the Gulf Stream would probably be diverted, and a Rev. John E. White Writes on The Sociological Congress •Si g It Means That the South Intends to Make an End of Outside Fault finding by Undertaking Itself All of the Faultfinding That Is Nec essary. WRITTEN FOR THE GEORGIAN By REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE Pastor Second Baptist Church \ \ THEN sociology first came V \ South it met a cold re ception. Here and there a college professor extended hos pitality, but the popular mind viewed it askance. The word was the limit of new-fangled scien- tifles and smacked of a certain “black beast” called Socialism. W ho would have thought that in the year 1913 a great South ern Sociological Congress would be meeting in Atlanta? This Sociological Congress which began its session here last Friday evening means criticism. You know’ that, of course, if you have attended any of the con ferences. South Criticising Itself. It fheans that the South intends to make an end of outside fault finding by undertaking itself all the fault finding that is neces sary. Southern conditions of one kind and another have been the subject of a good deal of dis cussion in this country and abroad. Injurious impressions about the South have gone out over the world. The Southern Sociological Con gress means that Southern men are addressing themselves to Southern conditions and that the best intelligence and the moat unselfish patriotism is to be con centrated upon all the social problems of the Southern States. The old protest—“Let the South alone”—may now cease. The South is not going to let her self alone. Wherever there is any general situation of social sorrow, of de pressed civilization, of backward progress, our minds and hearts are to be organized and a great hand stretched forth with the truth on its palm for all the peo ple to see. It will be a Southern band, a hand of understanding and sym pathy. The Broad Diagnosis. It will be again of incalculable value for Southen men to see the truth about ourselves and see it whole. None of the conditions which need remedy can be dea.lt with effectively so long as they are considered merely individual and local. The slogan of the congress is “A Solid South for a Better Na tion.” That is a solidity of Southern society which peculiar ly invites the sociological lever* We are a morally inflammable people. The resolution of im provement can be invoked for a general contagion of progress. A good straight look at the Southern field sociologically, for instance, will show our weakness clearly in relation to our strength. There are 30,000,000 people, but they are not all safely civilized. From the standpoint of the so ciologist—and this is the stand point of the truth—the South is ten million strong and not far from twenty million weak. . There are 10,000,000 people who represent the intelligence, the thrift and the progressiveness of the Southern States, but there ars 10,000,000 white people—and An glo-Saxon at that—who, on ac count of illiteracy and unsocial ized natural intelligence, are suf fering the penalties of backward ness. They constitute the real prob lem, and until it is taken out of the eddies and put into a current the reliability of our civilization is called into question. The 10,000,000 negroes also are here among us and a part of the heavy downpull which handicaps us. Optimism With Motive. The characteristic of the Socio logical Congress is optimism with a motive. Those who stand out side and criticise the South do not do us any good, and, indeed, can not. Grover Cleveland said: “Those who stand next to the burden are alone able to lift it.” When a man finds fault with himself there is hope of practical repentance. Southern men believe in the South. They believe that its re sources justify a radiant vision. These resources of material wealth In soil and climate, in mind and field, are world assets. Our resources of human nature are generous and courageous. We constitute the great American re serve of the unmixed republican stock of Jealous Anglo-Saxonism. Our great powers only await en listment, combination and direc tion. , There is nothing going on below the Mason and Dixon line that appeals quite as much to funda mental patriotism as the begin nings of constructive criticism realized and foreshadowed in the Southern Sociological Congress. If you should he alive 100 years from to-day, no doubt you will be able to see sights in the United States like the above. Here you see the great, tall buildings of the future, so tall that the giant sky scrapers of to-day. one of which boasts of a height of 750 feet, would appear but a pigmy compared to the skyscraper of the future with its more tha it 100 Stories. You may be sure that when build- ings such a sure pictured above become a reality, the airship willthen he as common as the trolleys of to-day. American Genius Has Given the World Its Greatest Wonder * No Molecule Ever Rests By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN. M September since Balboa, standing silent upon his “peak in Darien,” saw the glitter of the Pacific and thus knew that there was another great ocean west of America. He. and others after him, looked for a natural waterway between those oceans, but the possibility of making such a way could not have occurred to him, and he cer tainly had no foresight of the mighty nation that was to arise in tlie north, composed of a differ ent race from his. and destined, in so fbort a time, to link the ocean behind him with that which he saw far ahead. No More to Discover. The ag< <»f discovery of new- habitable lands, capable of becom ing the seats of now empires, is past. Wo now* know the whole earth, as Nature made it. having seen even its poles, through the eyes of brave explorers. It ,only remains for us to complete its* conquest by making it fitter for our habitation. The Panama Canal is the first gigantic stride taken in this new’ conquest. American genius and enterprise have achieved it un aided We have paid its cost in OLECULES are composed of atoms; and. of course, the least number that can form an atom is evidently two, and the number varies greatly from tin* molecules of rare gas to dense solids. But no molecule within the entire range of hu man experience is at rest. Put. very line particles in water, put a small drop of the water unde** the lenses of a very high power microscope ifnci examine. The particles move rapidly and in many directions. Thus a particle will move on a short straight, line and then turn abruptly, not in a curved or round corner, but sharp, angular turns w ill bo made again and again, the path being zigzag. When the phenomenon was dis covered in 1827 by Brown the mo tions were named Brownian mo tions in his honor. But the mi croscopes used by him would be in the “ash heap" now, or in a museum of curios. The present day microscopes are instruments of very remarkable power. Brownian Motions. The Brownian motions have been studied by many able physi cists. At first investigators thought that the mysterious mo tions were caused by slight in equalities in temperature in the Utile drop of water. This was dis proved. The motions were appar ently self-caused, and continuous, no rest. Thus the smaller the particles suspended in the liquid, the f.trte; they moved. Finally tin met 1 1« the rapidity of the strange move ments ever Increased with de crease of size. All kinds of liquids were use to sustain the floating and flyin things. No explanation of motions was made; still could scarcely believe that th. moved of themselves. Tht came the very wonderful new u tra-violet energy-ray mtcroscop and new methods of a.pplyir rays to the flying bodies. A was now animation in laborati rles: the limit of all power < seeing was reached: -and seemed that the very interiors i the particles could be reache New kinds of liquids were dl; covered and used, and new kin< of excessively minute partlcli suspended. They ail moved; bi new rates, new speeds were dl; covered. Speeds Increased. Then another new plan wt tried; fine metals, as silver, we: torn apart by electricity into du of silver so fine as to be beyor imagination. These were put In' liquids, and specific speeds we; greatly Increased. Then an unheard-of experlmei was made—the extremely sma fragments of silver were float. In gas. They moved faster tha ever and In far longer paths b< fore turning. The great discoi ery was made; they do not mot of themselves, but are carrle along hither and thither by tt original invisible molecules "quills and gases. These perpetua of t U10'